Joint committee on national security strategy to hold inquiry into collapse of China spy trial, MPs told – UK politics live
Joint committee on national security strategy to hold inquiry into collapse of China spy trial, MPs told – UK politics live
Matt Western , the Labour chair of the joint committee on national security strategy, said that his commitee met this morning and has decided to hold a formal inquiry into this.
He said the chairs of the home affairs committee, the foreign affairs committee and the justice committee were among the committee’s members.
He asked for an assurance that the inquiry would have access to ministers and officials.
Ward said the government welcomed parliamentary scrutiny. He said he was sure witnesses would be made available to the committee.
Reform UK has been accused of sowing division over immigration in the south Welsh valleys constituency of Caerphilly before next week’s crucial Senedd byelection , Steven Morris reports.
As Steven reports, Caerphilly has always been a Labour seat, in Westminster and Senedd elections. In the Senedd election in 202 1, Labour was ahead of Plaid Cymru by 46% to 28%.
But a Survation poll out today suggests that the Labour vote has collapsed, and that it is now a contest between Reform UK and Plaid – with Reform UK just ahead.
Commenting on the findings, Damian Lyons Lowe , Survation’s chief executive, said:
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